The Austere Academy

An Age of Reason, An Age of Passion The period following the Renaissance focused the human attention toward the beauty of nature. It was man’s turn to be part of the nature and not the other way around. The term picturesque—or “compared to a picture” as Michael Woods defines it — defines new characteristics of the art from this period. This period, “An Age of Reason, An Age of Passion,” had a dual nature—rational, responsive to reason, but also anti-rational, responsive to emotion. “Making

church activities. Emily excelled very well in school and took great pride in Latin and Science. The first school she attended was called Amherst District School an exceptional school for the 19th century. After a short time she transferred to Amherst Academy for seven years, before entering Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1847 for one year, because of the strict and

In Damien Chazelle’s 2014 cinematic thriller Whiplash, Chazelle portrays the everyday struggle of a promising jazz drummer. Nominated for Best Motion Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and many other accolades, audiences everywhere rave of this film. Andrew Neiman, the young drummer and a very motivated individual, finds himself easy to cheer for in his journey to success. Though the movie dazzles audiences with its entrancing plot, critics applaud the feature film for its commentary on an increasingly

How and why did the values of Athenians differ from that of the Spartans? Ancient Greece provided the rudiments of Western civilisation; it has had a colossal influence on language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and arts. In the following several pages I hope to demonstrate explicitly, the bold differences between the two provinces, and to suggest the relativity, of Ancient Greece conventions, to modern times. In doing this I will bring upon wars, economic stances, and most

voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old; One sound to all, yet each Lends a meaning to their speech, And the meaning is manifold. They are a voice of the Past, of an age that is fading fast, of a power austere and grand, when the flag of Spain unfurled its folds o'er this western world, and the Priest was lord of the land. The chapel that once looked down on the little seaport

It had been a long week at school. I arrive on Friday morning feeling awful. Thankfully, there were only seven more dreadful hours until I was done. The second the 8th period bell rang, I quickly grabbed my belongings from my locker and got into the comfort of my car. I was driving with the heat on medium, the music on low volume, and both hands on the steering wheel. The next thing I know, I felt a heavy thump as my car had drifted into the rear driver-side door of a Toyota Sienna in the lane to

Cosimo hired the young Michelozzo Michelozzi (an artist) to create what is today perhaps the prototypical Florentine palazzo, the austere and magnificent Palazzo Medici ("Cosimo De' Medici.Encyclopædia Britannica”). He was also a patron and confidante of Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and Donatello, whose famed David and Judith Slaying Holofernes were Medici commissions ( "Cosimo

Manager and Leader During my personal life, I have had more disappointments and let downs from people in authority over me than I would like to admit. Theoretically, they had the managerial concept, but the leadership quality was lacking. A majority of my experiences were fearful driven by overpowering bosses that instilled, do it or lose your job, and that everyone is replaceable. Until ten years ago, I assumed all bosses treated their employees this way. However, I had a career change abruptly;

Neoclassical art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries emerged from both a movement away from the ‘frivolous’ style of Rococo art that came before it, and also the impact of the unprecedented archaeological discoveries of antiquity during this period. Artists drew on the themes of antiquity in order to develop a timeless mode of expression. They did not aim to simply imitate the art of the antiquity but rather strove to create a ‘pure’ or ‘ideal’ form of art inspired by the moral

French Revolution. Some recent historians begin the period in the 1620s, with the start of the scientific revolution. The Philosophes, the French term for the philosophers of the period, widely circulated their ideas through meetings at scientific academies, Masonic lodges, literary salons and coffee houses, and through printed books and pamphlets. The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the church, and paved the way for the revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries